Yet another adaptation of a WWI poem by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, sensitively translated by Marco Sonzogni and Ross Woods. The comic is the product of an ongoing collaboration with Sonzogni and Woods, and with the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation at Victoria University in Wellington.

Grazie Marco! I was completely flummoxed as to how to illustrate this one until I saw some images of the military cemetery at Colle Sant’Elia, in which helmets and weapons sit atop various commemorative cairns.